Dublin broadband provider upgrades metro network with Transmode gear

July 25, 2006 Stockholm, Sweden -- Broighter, the specialist High-Bandwidth Broadband Provider for Dublin, announced today that it has selected Transmode to supply metro WDM technology for its Dublin metro network upgrade. The upgraded Dublin metro network uses the Transmode TS-1100 to provide a CWDM overlay network on the existing infrastructure to provide service flexibility and future-proofing for the network.

Broighter Networks offers high-speed broadband services to enterprise customers and service providers in the greater Dublin area. The services operate at speeds of between 10 Mbits/sec and 1 Gbit/sec and are based on metro Ethernet technology. Applications for these services include enterprise site interconnects, Internet access, wireless base station aggregation, and mobile phone backhaul.

"As a rapidly growing metro Ethernet-based service provider we were in need of a cost-effective and highly functional optical network to support our planned network expansion," said Joerg Steegmueller, chief marketing officer at Broighter. "Transmode provided us with a network design that met our day-one requirements whilst also providing a platform that is capable of expansion to DWDM and 10G when required."

The Transmode TS-1100 provides Broighter with a flexible and scalable platform supporting the 7700 multi-protocol 2.5G Transponder, 7900 multi-protocol 10G Transponder, 5500 four-port low-speed muxponder, and the 5400 2x GbE/FC muxponder. Using patented Intelligent WDM (iWDM) protocol recognition and functionality such as SFP/XFP pluggable optics, the TS-1100 is designed to provide network operators and enterprises with a true plug-and-play experience, greatly reducing network and service turn up times.